1400+ yoga quotes ter inspiratie voor jouw yoga practice - DEEL 1

We hebben allemaal wel eens inspiratie of motivatie nodig. Ook voor iets wat ons zo goed helpt als yoga. 

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar

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1. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” ~ Etty Hittlesum

2. “When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” ~ Peace Pilgrim

3. “You either get bitter or get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.” ~ Josh Shipp

4. “Yoga begins right where I am – not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.” ~ Linda Sparrowe

5. “Change is not only inevitable, but always happening. When you truly embrace this concept of change being constant, the only thing left to do is grow, detach, venture inwards, touch the spirit and find your source — the one responsible for keeping you grounded through the ever-changing seasons of life.” ~ Julie Weiland

6. “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” ~ Osho

7. “You are the sky, everything else is just the weather.” ~ Pema Chodron

8. “It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It’s simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.” ~ Erich Schiffman

9. “We all want happiness, and yoga is the way for that much needed happiness factor in life.” ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

10. “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.” ~ Gandhi

11. “If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.” ~ Mastin Kipp

12. “Wisdom is knowing we are all One. Love is what it feels like and Compassion is what it acts like.” ~ Ethan Walker III

13. “Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

14. “Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

15. “In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.” ~ Pema Chodron

16. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” ~ Pema Chodron

17. “Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we can uncover our own pose in the moment, it’s not practice — it’s mimicry.” ~ Judith Hanson Lasater 

18. “Rest deeply in Savasana every day. Always enter that pratyahara (withdrawn state) every day. And just enjoy yourself.” ~ Judith Hanson Lasater

19. “For many years I mistook discipline as ambition. Now I believe it to be more about consistency. Do get on the mat. Practice and life are not that different.” ~ Judith Hanson Lasater

20. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu

21. “Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.” ~ Buddha

22. “For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” ~ Ivan Panin

23. “There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that’s a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.” ~ Kathryn Budig

24. “Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

25. “What you think, you become.” ~ Buddha

26. “Once you’re in touch with the life force around us, it’s natural to want to help keep it around.” ~ Adi Carter

27. “Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.” ~ The Bhagavad Gita

28. “Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path… exactly where you are meant to be right now… And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.” ~ Caroline Adams

29. “The soul is here for its own joy.” ~ Rumi

30. “The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire.” ~ Mama Indigo

31. “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.” ~ Mother Teresa

32. “Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are. Let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.” ~ C. Assaad

33. “Go from a human being doing yoga to a human being yoga.” ~ Baron Baptiste

34. “Yoga does not change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.” ~ B.K.S Iyengar

35. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour.” ~ Rumi

36. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar

37. “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” ~ Aristotle

38. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” ~ Jimmy Johnson

39. “May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.” ~ Saint Terese of Liseaux

40. “When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” ~ John Lennon

41. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~ C.G. Jung

42. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built.” ~ Rumi

43. “Yoga is when every cell of the body sings the song of the soul.” ~ B.K.S. Iyengar

44. “When you are looking in the mirror, you are looking at the problem. But, remember, you are also looking at the solution.” ~ Unknown

45. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ~ Aldous Huxley

46. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” ~ Camus

47. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

48. “A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” ~  Willy Wonka

49. “Make each day your masterpiece.” ~ John Wooden

50. “A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ — a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest— a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ~ Albert Einstein

51. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill

52. “Light tomorrow with today.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

53. “You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.” ~ Sharon Gannon

54. “A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.” ~ Terri Guillemets

55. “Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.” ~ Svatmarama

56. “Before you’ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you’ve practiced, the theory is obvious.” ~ David Williams

57. “Yoga is really trying to liberate us from… shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing — I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.” ~ Rodney Yee

58. “Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it.” ~ Sting

59. “The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.” ~ Hagavad Gita

60. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~ Rumi

61. “If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga.” ~ Terri Guillemets

62. “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” ~ Patanjali

63. “One of the fundamental principles of yoga: a small action done repeatedly can make an enormous difference.” ~ Dr. Timothy McCall

64. “Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn’t have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can’t practice Ashtanga yoga.” ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

65. “Clinging to life, flowing by its own potency [due to past experience], exists even in the wise.” ~ Patanjali

66. “By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness.” ~ Patanjali

67. “Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.” ~ Kripalvanandji

68. “I love yoga because not only is it a workout for your body, but also your breathing, which helps release a lot of stress. It really prepares you for the day.” ~ Tia Mowry

69. “Yoga, as a way of life and a philosophy, can be practiced by anyone with inclination to undertake it, for yoga belongs to humanity as a whole. It is not the property of any one group or any one individual, but can be followed by any and all, in any corner of the globe, regardless of class, creed or religion.” ~ Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois

70. “Hope is not a prediction of the future, it’s a declaration of what is possible.” ~ Yogi Bhajan

71. “The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to live in environments, which are calm, quiet, slow, sophisticated, elegant. Just to be. Whether you are naked or you have a golden robe on you, that doesn’t make any difference. The ideal purpose of your life is that you are grateful – great and full – that you are alive, and you enjoy it.” ~  Yogi Bhajan

72. “The harmonizing of opposing forces is a key aspect of yoga — hot energy is united with cool energy, strong with soft, and masculine with feminine.” ~ Tara Fraser

73. “The aim of yoga is to eliminate the control that material nature exerts over the human spirit, to rediscover through introspective practice what the poet T.S. Eliot called ‘the still point of the turning world.” ~ Barbara Stoler Miller

74. “Mountain pose is an affirmation. You can conquer anything with your natural boldness and resolute strength. Only you can reach the peak of your success.” ~ Terri Guillemets

75. “The reward for doing yoga well is simple—you get to do a better job at living a fulfilling life.” ~ Randal Williams

76. “What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.” ~ Helen Keller

77. “The autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic system, which is often identified with the fight-or-flight response, and the parasympathetic, which is identified with what’s been called the relaxation response. When you do yoga – the deep breathing, the stretching, the movements that release muscle tension, the relaxed focus on being present in your body – you initiate a process that turns the fight or flight system off and the relaxation response on. That has a dramatic effect on the body. The heartbeat slows, respiration decreases, blood pressure decreases. The body seizes this chance to turn on the healing mechanisms.” ~ Richard Faulds

78. “This calm steadiness of the senses is called yoga. Then one should become watchful, becomes yoga comes and go.” ~ Katha Upanishad

79. “Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.” ~ Rumi

80. “Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.” ~ Bhagavad Gita

81. “Understanding without practice is better than practice without understanding. Understanding with practice is better than understanding without practice. Residing in your true nature is better than understanding or practice.” ~ Upanishads

82. “This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.” ~ Bhagavad Gita

83. “The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

84. “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” ~ Caroline Myss

85. “The perennial wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita can teach us how to transform our character, conduct and consciousness to meet the challenges of everyday life.” ~ Leonard Perlmutter

86. “You may think that only you are a prisoner, but other people are also prisoners. You are in a small prison, but others are in the big prison outside. When will they be released? Think that you are a yogi and that you are pursuing your sadhana in this particular place and at this particular moment. Immediately you will experience great joy. If you change your understanding, you will be free in a minute.” ~ Baba Muktananda

87. “Mountain pose teaches us, literally, how to stand on our own two feet…. teaching us to root ourselves into the earth…. Our bodies become a connection between heaven and earth.” ~ Carol Krucoff

88. “What yoga philosophy and all the great Buddhist teachings tells us is that solidity is a creation of the ordinary mind and that there never was anything permanent to begin with that we could hold on to. Life would be much easier and substantially less painful if we lived with the knowledge of impermanence as the only constant.” ~ Donna Farhi

89. “The beauty is that people often come here for the stretch, and leave with a lot more.” Liza Ciano 

90. “Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it & use it. The chief aim of education should be to help the growing soul to draw out that in itself which is best and make it perfect for a noble use.” ~ Sri Aurobindo

91. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ~ Jack Kornfield

92. “Every waking moment we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act.” ~ John Lembo

93. “Habits allow us to not think about what we’re doing . . . giving us the illusion of ease. When we are under the illusion of ease, not thinking about what we’re doing. Breathing the same old way, moving the same old way, thinking the same old way we check out of the present, out of happiness itself.” ~ Alex Levin

94. “All I’m saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality. I call this process ‘blueprinting’ because anything you create in your outer world began as a simple blueprint in your inner world.” ~ Robin Sharma

95. “Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequaled.” ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar

96. “The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency, in you… If you realize the unity of the Self amid the diversities of the Not-Self, then Yoga Will not seem an impossible thing to you.” ~ Annie Wood Besant

97. “A person experiences life as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.” ~ Albert Einstein

98. “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” ~ Roald Dahl

99. “Feel good, be good, and do good.” ~ Yogi Bhajan

100. “When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.” ~ B. K. S. Iyengar

101. “The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

102. “Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect. If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it’s much, much more.” ~ Patricia Walden

103. “I do yoga so that I can stay flexible enough to kick my own arse if necessary.” ~ Betsy Cañas Garmon 

104. “By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.” ~ Phillip Moffitt

105. “Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.” ~ B. K. S. Iyengar

106. “Inhale the future. Exhale the past.” ~ Unknown

107. “Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.” ~ Kevin Trudeau

108. “Yoga calms me down. It’s a therapy session, a workout, and meditation all the same time!” ~ Jennifer Aniston

109. “Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible.” ~ Bob Harper

110. “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” ~ Najwa Zebian

111. “Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m suffering, I find this war with reality to be at the heart of the problem.” ~ Stephen Cope

112. “There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.” ~ Kathryn Budig

113. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” ~Sydney J. Harris

114. “One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.” ~ Viggo Mortensen

115. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” ~ David Allen

116. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” ~ Lee Iacocca

117. “I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.” ~ Shayne McClendon

118. “Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

119. “In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.” ~ Fred Rogers

120. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

121. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

122. “Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.” ~ Boethius

123. “Even as fire finds peace in its resting place without fuel, when thoughts become silence the soul finds peace in its own source. When the mind is silent, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind. This is wisdom, and this is liberation.” ~ The Upanishads

124. “God give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, the courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

125. “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” ~ Socrates

126. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” ~ Steve Maraboli

127. “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.” ~ Frank Herbert

128. “My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.” ~ Mahogany SilverRain

129. “Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love.” ~ Prem Prakash

130. “It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didn’t need to sleep so much. It took a while before I realized that in addition to my improved energy level, there was a direct correlation between chewing on mental garbage and putting garbage in my mouth.” ~  Holly Mosier

131. “No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a little time to form new and better ones. But I promise you this: Even a slight move in this direction will bring you some peace. The more effort you apply to it, the faster you’ll find your bliss, but you’ll experience rewards immediately.” ~ Holly Mosier

132. “As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.” ~ Richard Matheson

133. “Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing.” ~ Ricky Maye

134. “Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.” ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

135. “As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.” ~ Adi Shankara

136. “Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.” ~ Gangaji

137. “You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.” ~ A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami

138. “Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.” ~ Louise Talma

139. “Don’t hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.” ~ Zen Master Bankei Yotaku

140. “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha

141. “If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.” ~ Ajahn Amaro

142. “Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior. Then whatever you do has grace in it. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.” ~ Osho

143. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” ~ Buddha

144. “If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.” ~ Alan Cohen

145. “If you can’t meditate in a boiler room, you can’t meditate.” ~ Alan Watts

146. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” ~ Buddha

147. “Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.” ~ Pema Chodron

148. “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” ~ Buddha

149. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” ~ Alan Watts

150. “Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.” ~ Allan Lokos

151. “When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

152. “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” ~ Buddha

153. “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” ~ Buddha

154. “So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.” ~ Allan Lokos

155. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ~ Buddha

156. “While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.” ~ Allan Lokos

157. “Meditation will not carry you to another world, but it will reveal the most profound and awesome dimensions of the world in which you already live. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.” ~ Zen Master Hsing Yun

158. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ~ Amit Ray

159. “There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.” ~ Buddha

160. “Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.” ~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

161. “Life is a mystery – mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.” ~ Amit Ray

162. “Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, ‘What are they to me?’ A jug fills drop by drop.” ~ Buddha

163. “All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.” ~ Adyashanti

164. “Clarity is part of the mind from the beginning, a natural awareness. Just acknowledge it, simply notice that you’re aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.” ~ Mingyur Rinpoche

165. “The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. ‘Everything arises and passes away.’ When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.” ~ Buddha

166. “Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.” ~ Amit Ray

167. “Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.” ~ Amit Ray

168. “Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.” ~ Vimala Thakar

169. “If a man’s thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.” ~ Buddha

170. “If it weren’t for my mind, my meditation would be excellent.” ~ Ani Pema Chodron

171. “Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better, it’s about befriending who we are.” ~ Ani Pema Chodron

172. “What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.” ~ Hakuin

173. “I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.” ~ James Gould Cozzens

174. “We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” ~ Alan Watts

175. “You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.” ~ Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

176. “Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, ‘I and my Father are One’.” ~ James Allen

177. “Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.” ~ Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

178. “A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.” ~ Buddha

179. “Silence is not an absence but a presence.” ~ Anne D. LeClaire

180. “When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.” ~ Rudolf Steiner

181. “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

182. “ If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.” ~ Buddha

183. “Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.” ~ Buddha

184. “The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

185. “On life’s journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.” ~ Buddha

186. “Avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.” ~ Buddha

187. “Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.” ~ Bahya ibn Paquda

188. “Through meditation, the Higher Self is experienced.” ~ Bhagavad Gita

189. “I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfilment.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

190. “Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.” ~ Swami Sivananda

191. “Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

192. “Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.” ~ Sharon Salzberg

193. “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” ~ Buddha

194. “The practice of reflective mediation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will.” ~ Walter M. Horton

195. “One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.” ~ Muhammad

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